Not good enough for America. More than good enough for the Starmer regime.

Sir Keir Starmer has appointed the former head of a US university who was forced to quit over an anti-Semitism scandal as his chief economic adviser.

Minouche Shafik, who also briefly served as deputy governor of the Bank of England, will join No 10’s top team at a critical moment as the Prime Minister battles to boost the economy and avert a fiscal crisis.

During a US Congress hearing in the months prior to her resignation, she was accused by Republican committee chairman Virginia Foxx of allowing the New York-based university to become “a hotbed of anti-Semitism and hatred”.

Minouche Shafik had been accused of plagiarism so I hope she can quickly plagiarize some economic plans to save the corrupt Starmer government.

Columbia University criticized a plagiarism allegation levied against its president, calling the claim “absurd.”

Yale University Professor Ahmed Mobarak accused President Minouche Shafik of “wholesale intellectual theft,” in reference to a 30-year-old paper that is almost identical to a study she co-authored in 1992.

The 1992 report is called “Economic Growth and Environmental Quality: Time Series and Cross-Country Evidence” and the 1994 paper is titled “Economic Development and Environmental Quality: An Econometric Analysis.”

The papers are by far Shafik’s most cited. The 1992 one has been cited 2,816 times per Google Scholar data, the 1994 one 2407. The next most cited comes in at 115. The majority of Shafik’s work has been cited less than one hundred times.

On the bright side, Shafik will now be working for the Starmer regime which can arrest anyone who criticizes it. So probably best not to mention it if you’re on the other side of the paper curtain.